A Builders provider, who breached High Court orders restraining him from carrying on other business activities at his Naas Road premises three times, was freed yesterday after having spent a night in Mountjoy Prison.
Richard Cullen, of Old Bawn Avenue, Tallaght, Dublin, had a £5,000 banker's draft in court to be paid to two neighbours. Cullen apologised profusely to Mr Justice Kelly. His counsel, Mr John Quirke, told the court Mr William Cullen was prepared to guarantee his brother's future adherence to court orders by posting another £5,000.
Mr Justice Kelly ordered that the £5,000 draft be paid to Mr Albert Winston and his wife, Mary, who, he said, had the courage to detail and record Cullen's activities and report his breaches of the planning laws and court orders to Dublin Corporation.
Mr Justice Kelly said Cullen had made the lives of his next door neighbours, the Winstons, a misery by running unauthorised businesses from the Naas Road premises including that of a taxi company.
He said Cullen had intimidated Mr Winston by "shadowing" him on his way to and from work and warned him that if there was any repeat of his activities, either personally or by any of his cohorts or the "heavies" he had brought to court with him, he would go to jail for a much longer period.
Mr Justice Kelly adjourned the matter until October 18th when he would expect the second sum of £5,000 to be produced which would go towards the corporation's legal costs.